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Hi All, I'd appreciate any help with the following problem. When I use the search bar in Windows Explorer it kills the application ("Windows Explorer Has Stopped Working") after about the second keystroke. Sometimes it makes it to the third. If I cut and paste the whole search term from another application - it seems to do OK with only the odd hissy-fit! The cut & paste option is really painful so it's not an option to carry on like this - nor is it an option to ditch Vista (Home Premium Ed) - give me strength! If no-one's got any ideas how do I get in touch with those *wonderful* people at Microsoft - or should I assume that they're attentivel…

Hey folks, I am on the road (and will be for some time)and so I dont have all of my cd's available. I some how got my 'print.exe' corrupted and was hoping someone would post it so I could get it to print out my reports. I have a Windows 2000 Professional Service Pack 4 (build 2195). Help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank You

[/url]AP - Video advertising is coming to YouTube, but it won't be the type common at sites elsewhere. Starting Wednesday, the popular video-sharing site plans to feature semitransparent "overlay" ads at the bottom of selected video clips. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Besides leaving the hospital with a birth certificate and a clean bill of health, baby Mila Belle Howells got something she won't likely use herself for several years: her very own Internet domain name. Link To Original Article

AP - Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks and digital media company RealNetworks announced Tuesday a digital music joint venture that will compete with Apple's dominant trinity of the iTunes store, iPod player and iPhone. Link To Original Article

[/url]AP - Toy maker Mattel Inc. went to court Tuesday to declare that the name of its clean-cut Barbie dolls doesn't belong on a model's pornographic Web site. Link To Original Article

AP - Wal-Mart's online music store started selling songs free of copy-protection technology Tuesday for 94 cents per tune. Link To Original Article

Yes, I'm still at Hot Chips. This post covers a special presentation by Reed Hundt of Frontline Wireless, who is a former chairman of the FCC. (Michael Kanellos has also blogged about this speech, here.) Previous Hot Chips installments include the AMD keynote, wireless networking, technology and software, process technology, ... Link To Original Article

[/url]Reuters - Latvia's former president, Vaira Vike-Freiberga, is considering using eBay to auction off the wardrobe she wore in office in an attempt to recoup money she spent to look attractive and presidential. Link To Original Article

This is the seventh in a series of posts from the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University. The previous installments looked at technology and software, process technology, multicore designs, IBM's Power6 efforts, Vernor Vinge's keynote address, and Nvidia. Other CNET coverage may be found here. This is sort ... Link To Original Article

The last reference to a Microsoft Sidewinder product on CNET was back on an old must-have games roundup from 2002, where we pointed to a Sidewinder steering wheel. Five years later, Microsoft has let its gaming hardware brand die, until today that is, when it announced the Sidewinder Mouse. Available ... Link To Original Article

USATODAY.com - TOKYO - Japan already has the funkiest cellphones in the world: More than their U.S. counterparts, Japanese consumers use mobile phones to watch TV, pay bills, order concert tickets, read manga (comics) and summon help from global-positioning satellites to figure out where they are. But market analysis suggests there's still a niche in Japan for Apple's iPhone. Link To Original Article

This is the sixth in a series of posts from the Hot Chips conference at Stanford University. The previous installments looked at process technology, multicore designs, IBM's Power 6 efforts, Vernor Vinge's keynote address, and Nvidia. Other CNET coverage may be found here. This is sort of an ... Link To Original Article

ASPEN, Colo. -- Microsoft lashed out at Google's YouTube video-sharing site on Tuesday, saying its own Soapbox is far more responsible and doesn't take advantage of "loopholes" in copyright law. Thomas Rubin, Microsoft's associate general counsel for copyright, said that unlike YouTube, Microsoft's Soapbox video-sharing site ... Link To Original Article

InfoWorld - Sharp unveiled a prototype TV on Wednesday that's packed with technologies that could appear soon in its products. The wall-mounted TV is just 2 centimeters thick and gets its signal via a high-speed wireless link, meaning the only cable required is for the power. Link To Original Article

This is the fifth in a series of posts from the Hot Chips conference at Stanford. The previous installments looked at multicore designs, IBM's Power 6 efforts, Vernor Vinge's keynote address, and Nvidia. Other CNET coverage may be found here. This is sort of an experiment for me; ... Link To Original Article

In advance of Labor Day weekend and its inevitable coast-to-coast traffic jams, Microsoft is releasing Streets & Trips 2008 software. Among the new features in the deluxe edition are live traffic updates, information on nearby gas prices, and estimates of what filling up along the journey will cost for that ... Link To Original Article

PC World - Early apps let you Webcast baseball games, check gas prices, and network with friends, but true business software may require more than just Safari. Link To Original Article

This is the fourth in a series of posts from the Hot Chips conference at Stanford. The previous installments looked at IBM's Power 6 efforts, Vernor Vinge's keynote address, and Nvidia. Other CNET coverage may be found here. This is sort of an experiment for me; I usually ... Link To Original Article

Also: Social networking hits investing. Read these stories and more from around the Web on News.com Extra. Link To Original Article

Social networking site Bebo, with a 36-million-strong member base centered primarily in the U.K., announced Tuesday that it has partnered with Microsoft on a new instant messaging initiative. The Windows Live Messenger service, formerly known as MSN Messenger, is now the fuel behind Bebo's new internal IMing operations.... Link To Original Article

TechWeb - Bill Gates and Jeff Raikes will help introduce Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communicator 2007, and Microsoft Live Meeting. Link To Original Article

Hi all, I am using WSUS3.0 in Windows Server 2003 SP1 running in VMware. Somehow synchronizing fails for over than a month because WSUSService crashes. I can restart WSUSService manually by typing "net start WSUSService" in command line, but whenever it is synchronizing it fails between 10% and 15%. However Catalog synchronizes successfully (getting msg 10021). Syslog has some errors concerning WSUS: 10032 (Server cant download some updates) 364 (... File cert failure ...) 5144 (... SUSDB was cancelled by user or timed out after 1047 ms...) 7034 (Service "Update Service" exited unexpected. This already happened 13Times) Does anybody have an idea …

This is an SBS 2003 SP1. The onset of this problem seems to coincide with installation of updates (not SP2, which has not yet been installed) a couple weeks ago. I find it both disconcerting and at the same time reassuring that my search for this topic turned up nothing...but here it is. Users printing some web pages to a network printer get only part of the text printed. Text in boxes or a different color, it seems, are missing--white space where there should be text. The print preview shows correctly. This is with various network printers and more than one kind of print server, although most are HPs with built in print servers, it is also happening with…

This is an SBS 2003 SP1. The onset of this problem seems to coincide with installation of updates (not SP2, which has not yet been installed) a couple weeks ago. I find it both disconcerting and at the same time reassuring that my search for this topic turned up nothing...but here it is. Users printing some web pages to a network printer get only part of the text printed. Text in boxes or a different color, it seems, are missing--white space where there should be text. The print preview shows correctly. This is with various network printers and more than one kind of print server, although most are HPs with built in print servers, it is also happeni…